How do I uninstall photos for mac?

1. You don't. Just drag it out of the Dock, follow the instructions in #2, and ignore it.

2. Open iPhoto or Image Capture and change what happens when the devices are connected.

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A minor problem is that iPhoto will no longer work. It would appear Apple has blocked it. I can't get any copy of it to run without a dialog that says I must use Photos instead. What do you know about this since I haven't found a solution.

You must have iPhoto 9.6.1 too run with 10.10.3. To download 9.6.1 from the App Store all copies of earlier versions of iPhoto (and any alias files of them) must be deleted from the hard drive before going to the App Store. iPhoto 9.6.1 will be found in the Purchases section.

Try using RCDefaultApp to change it.

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I do. Several copies in fact. It worked fine on the release day of 10.10.3. But yesterday I gave it another try. It is blocked regardless of which one I try to use from different disks. I even tried using Open With but it wouldn't use iPhoto 9.6.1. It defaulted to Photos. As best I can tell Apple has effectively blocked its usage once you upgrade.

Did you try launching iPhoto 9.6.1 and selecting the library from the Open window that comes up?

Shoot!! Now it works. I was going to post images for clarity. Now the sucker runs just fine. Yesterday I had an icon with a no-entry slash across it together with a dialog that said I needed to upgrade. Today it seems happy to open as it had been. There were dozens of posts yesterday about this exact same problem. I thought they were all nuts until I tried it. There I was with all the nuts. Now, I truly was nuts. 😁

You were a victim of the "ghost in the machine". 👿

Hi all. I am also interested in removing the software. Don't take much pictures and If I do, I prefer to organise myself simply with folders and photoshop if needed. I never asked for Photos, just as I never asked for iphoto but somehow we are always spooned their latest gizmo which is often time a drag rather than a help. I do not need this, would better save the 50mb for something else, and above all, I do not want to see Photo agent in my activity monitor for no reason, (nor do I need all this icloud stuff by the way which causes more bugs than real added value)

Apple's time would have been better spent making sure 10.10.3 would actually fix wifi instead of recreating the issue, and cleaning up up all the little discrepancies and mismatch that are plaguing yosemite (XPC etc...).

Sorry for the rant, in short: How to really remove Photos?

How to really remove Photos?

Since it's part of the system the only way to get rid of it is to reinstall an earlier version of the system, like Yosemite 10.10.1 or 2, or Mavericks. Just follow Niel's first post. 50 mB is insignificant in terms of today's hard drives in the multi GB size.

Here it is of course. I haven't done anything photo related since the update, only opened Photos once to find out I would never touch again and indeed didn't.

But since Apple's new moto is to mess up usability any way possible, Photo agent somehow managed to overload my system while I was video editing, forcing me to restart.

Why apple? why?

Why are these lines multiplied continuously in my console causing temperature spikes?

Input library: (null), is nil or closing/closed, backtrace: (

0 Moments 0x00000001002c7e6f -[RDMoment(MomentData) assets] + 253

1 MomentsLibrary 0x0000000100969d7b __62-[PLMomentAnalyzer _updateInfoForAllMomentsWithReAnalyzeType:]_block_invoke_2 + 727

2 Moments 0x00000001002cea43 -[MTMomentGenerationDataProvider performBlock:completionHandler:] + 66

3 PhotoFoundation 0x000000010030e278 -[PFDispatchQueue _invoke:] + 89

4 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff8ad7ec13 _dispatch_client_callout + 8

5 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff8ad8c7a1 _dispatch_sync_recurse_invoke + 41

6 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff8ad7ec13 _dispatch_client_callout + 8

7 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff8ad7fe5e _dispatch_barrier_sync_f_invoke + 57

8 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff8ad8c739 _dispatch_barrier_sync_f_recurse + 89

9 PhotoFoundation 0x0000000100313b6e -[_PFFastDispatchQueue dispatchSync:] + 127

10 Moments 0x00000001002ceb52 -[MTMomentGenerationDataProvider performBlock:synchronously:completionHandler:] + 192

11 MomentsLibrary 0x0000000100969a2a __62-[PLMomentAnalyzer _updateInfoForAllMomentsWithReAnalyzeType:]_block_invoke + 546

12 MomentsLibrary 0x000000010095f34b __41-[PLMomentAnalyzer _runBlockOnWorkQueue:]_block_invoke + 207

13 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff8ad83323 _dispatch_call_block_and_release + 12

14 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff8ad7ec13 _dispatch_client_callout + 8

15 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff8ad82365 _dispatch_queue_drain + 1100

16 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff8ad83ecc _dispatch_queue_invoke + 202

17 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff8ad816b7 _dispatch_root_queue_drain + 463

18 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff8ad8ffe4 _dispatch_worker_thread3 + 91

19 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff93645637 _pthread_wqthread + 729

20 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff9364340d start_wqthread + 13

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I never asked for photomoments, Photos or whatever smoke screen gadget you find useful to impose on us. Why don't you make your OS stable to begin with? Don't you know you're playing with people's livelihood?

I restarted and quit the process so it's fixed, don't bother replying, that is until it starts again or some other random process come populate my console, already crowded with a freakin zoo of errors, warnings and irregularities.

The day i'll storm in your HQ will be a photomoment, that's for sure.

The day i'll storm in your HQ will be a photomoment, that's for sure.

You realize you're not talking to any Apple representatives, here, don't you. We're all just users like yourself. If you want to continue to use iPhoto try what Terence Devlin posted in this topic:

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Apr 14, 2015 11:21 AM

Re: Is Iphoto gone ? i want it back!

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Go to the App Store and check out the Purchases List. If iPhoto is there then it will be v9.6.1

If it is there, then drag your existing iPhoto app (not the library, just the app) to the trash

Install the App from the App Store.

Sometimes iPhoto is not visible on the Purchases List. it may be hidden. See this article for details on how to unhide it.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4928

One question often asked: Will I lose my Photos if I reinstall?

iPhoto the application and the iPhoto Library are two different parts of the iPhoto programme. So, reinstalling the app should not affect the Library. BUT you should always have a back up before doing this kind of work. Always.

I know. It just felt better letting it all out.

I'm not interested in Iphoto either. I just want Photos wiped off my computer. I can manage just fine with folders.

But thanks for the tip